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The landed Interest foolishly thought that a show of a few million pieces of gold was proof demonstrable that the paper-makers could command gold enough for a circulating medium; whereas to enable the country to pay 75 millions a year of gold in taxes, the Bullion of the WHOLE WORLD would not suffice.

Since writing the above, the Irish Secretary Goulburn has given notice of a bill to PERPETUATE this MONSTROUS SYSTEM; in one word,. to give for ever, to the IRISH PROTESTANT CLERGY, the FULL VALUE of the WHOLE produce of 1,353,713 acres of land, English measure, to be raised by the CAPITAL and LABOUR and Cost of the population of Ireland.

No Commissioners will value this produce at less than from four to ten pounds per acre, constituting a revenue from five to thirteen millions per annum; besides a renta!, reckoned at one pound per acre, upon two elevenths of the kingdom, as episcopal and giebe lands amounting to 3,412,334l. ad

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And this is the scheme, brought into a British House of Commons, to give a perpetuity to a revenue amounting at least to TEN MILLIONS per year, which is upwards of TWO THIRDS of the rental of all the lands in the kingdom, for the performance of Pretestant rites to ONE SEVENTH of the population.

Reckoning only 200 families to each Christian Protestant Pastor, this would average twenty thousand a year to every Bishop, Dean, Rector, and Curate too.

Now to these figures there is no reply: as long us two and two shall be equal to four; so long will one tenth of the produce of 13,537,130 acres be equal to the whole produce of 1,353,719 acres ; and mind, it is the PRODUCE, including Rent, Tithes, Rates, Seed, Labour, Manure, Team, Interest upon Capital, Taxes, Ckill, which is equal to five times the rent, and which Parliament has, after long investigation, so determined it to be.

One word in Peel's ear-when you denied the right of Parliament to appropriate these revenues, did it not occur to you, the Catholics of Ireland might say—“ If title be so sacred, then does this property belong of right to us: the present holders have no pretensions but to a Parliamentary Title, and as the Ministers assert Parliament has not the power, what hinders us to claim, aye, and to seize our pristine rights? We have held them 1000 years— the Protestants by Parliamentary grant 160 years."

EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES, REFERENCES, &c.

In each diocese the Incumbents are alphabetically arranged for the convenience of reference to their respective names, as relatives to the Bishops, Nobility, &c. The numbers immediately following, refer to the diocesan returns to Parliament, as printed 26th May, 1820, by which the correctness of each may be instantly ascertained: the letters Rr, are Rector resident; Ra, Rector absent; Vr and Va, Vicars resident or absent; Cr and Ca, Curates resident or absent.

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The subsequent columns explain themselves; where H is added to the quantity of Glebe, it signifies there is a house attached.

When C is placed before the number of tythable acres, it signifies computation; for instance, the Bishops in some returns say 66 a Benefice contains 12 square miles," each square mile then being equal to 640 acres, they have been reduced to acres, until a more accurate return shall be made.

If proof be asked for the assertion that originally the parochial Clergy were entitled to only one fourth of the tythes, these returns give it most incontestibly: the Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, (pages 128, 129, and 139,) and the Bishop of Kildare, (page 200,) are now in receipt of their portion; the former says, "in my diocese is retained the OLD EPISCOPAL establishment of the QUARTA PARS; that is, a PORTION of the PAROCHIAL TYTHES out of EVERY PARISH, payable to the Bishop: and in Kilmacduagh such is its import in EVERY PARISH WITHOUT EXCEPTION.

The Bishop then proceeds (page 139,)" many new arrangements, indeed, highly productive of comfort to the Clergymen, and conducive to the firmer establishment of the Protestant Religion, might be made in my diocese, were the GOVERNMENT to extend to it the SAME POLICY under which, at DIFFERENT PERIODS, it has been pleased to regulate, I believe, EVERY DIOCESE of Ireland, namely, by granting him a COMPENSATION to enable the BISHOP to RESTORE the QUARTA PARS, now allotted to the See, to the official parochial Incumbents."

And, in short, there is scarcely one return of this monstrous establishment, in which the Bishops do not call upon Parliament, for MORE REVENUE: to into the detail, would freeze the blood in our veins.

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Numerous also are the instances of livings returned as TOO SMALL to afford COMFORT to the Incumbent; but how they become so, not a word is sad : let us look at a few.

In the diocese of Cork and Ross, (page 195, No. 12,) the Vicarages of Kilmacabea and Kilfaughnabeg, are returned as of a value too small to afford comfort to the Incumbent, but this arises from the rectorial tythes of these parishes being appropriated to the archdeaconry, consisting of a sinecure of four entire rectories. In like manner the vicarage of Aghadown, (No. 16,) in the same diocese, is classed as too small, of which the rectorial tythes aleo belong to the archdeacon.

In page 246, No. 13, Temple Michael, alias Temple Mihil, and Kilcoken vicarages are returned as too small, of which the rectorial tythes are attached as a Sinecure to a prebend in page 252.

On the same page, Mr. Lymberry, (No. 19) has the vicarage of Kilbarrymeadon, returned as too small, the great tythes of which are appropriated to the Dean of Cashel, who is Precentor of Waterford also. Mr. Lymberry is, therefore, permitted to serve a curacy for the next incumbent, there being no church on his vicarage of Kilbarrymeadon, and this adjoining vicarage having also its great tythes appropriated to another sinecure. Kiirossanty, page 252.)

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Modeligo Kilgobinet, Kilmolash, in the same page, are similarly circumstanced.

Dysert is also similar, and Ballybacon, (No. 28,) though united with Tu- · brid, containing together upwards of 10,000 acres, is also so classed, because the Archdeacon has the rectorial tythes of the one, and the Dean of the other.

In the diocese of Cloyne, (No. 25) there are three entire rectories and vicarages returned as too small, being part of an union of five rectories, held in commendam with the SEE OF CLOYNE, which union comprises together 19,200 acres.

In the diocese of Killaloe, Dysert, (No. 14,) and many other vicarages are returned as benefices, although they are mere portions of the 8 immense sinecures entered in pages 238 and 289, of which no return is given.

In page 286, (No. 2,) consisting of a Rectory and two Vicarages, extending over 4960 acres, is returned as too small, although there is no church, and the whole of the duties are performed by a substitute for 57. 13s. 9d. per annum.

In Limerick, (No. 46) the Vicar of Crecora is allowed to have his duties gratuitously discharged by a neighbouring Curate, because the Vicar serves the important Cure of Rathkeale, belonging to the Chancellor, which consists of 4 Rectories and Vicarages; and as a further compensation, the Vicar is endowed with the sinecure Rectory of Brosna, page 310.

Benefices

SCHEDULE of the IRISH BENEFICES, from the Diocesan Returns to Parliament, 1819.

DIOCESES.

Number of Parishes

Benefices

with Cure constituting Churches. without Unions.

Benefices Benefices

Glebe

of Souls,

Benefices.

Churches.

Houses.

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ESTIMATED QUANTITY of the different COUNTIES of IRELAND, from Dr. Beaufort's Memoir, published in 1792, with the Average Value by Mr. Wakefield.

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Population of Ireland, in 1792, according to Dr. Beaufort. 3,783,326

Population in 1766:

Protestants 544,865

> Catholics

1,326,960

1,871,825

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